The Freelancer is a brand new profession that allow your Sims to work from home, and pick up gigs that they have to finish before a deadline, with no corporate strings attached.

The Sim in the career path of an artist.

The Sims can choose to be a freelance writer, artist or programmer, all with flexible work schedule. As with the 'Get Famous' actor career, you'll have an agency which offer you jobs to complete over a period of time. If you want more Simoleons then you have to commit to more freelance projects. However, much like real life freelancers, freelancing sims will not have be getting any promotion. The only way to get pay increases is to work more and gain a better reputation with the agency.

The update also include some new items like a spanky new laptop that can be earned via the freelance career and a fancy floating shelf to store some decorative items. Aside from that, there will also be new clothing options that the Sims can wear while they work from home.

The Sim in the career path of a IT Programmer.

Important to note that, the freelancer will not be available for consoles. However, Maxis did announce that there will be a full keyboard and mouse support for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the April update.

The freelancer update will be available for free for Mac and PC users on April 16, 2019.

Vick Menon is an intern at IGN Southeast Asia. You can also check out his own creations at GamerKahn.